Pere Goriot
Balzac, Honore De / Brooks, Peter / Reed, Henry / Reed, Henry
Père Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac's novels, ” writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father who sacrifices everything for his daughters. This novel marked the true beginning of Balzac's towering project La Comédie Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting "the whole pell-mell of civilization.” In Père Goriot, the great novelist probes the "bourgeois tragedy” of money and power from two...